So updated my bios to the latest and...we have a winner! I have rebooted a few times and I still have a battery icon!

That was a let-down. I restarted fully expecting it to still be working and it's greyed out again! Still hunting for a solution. It seems Windows 10 resets things during the prolonged black screen at...

While gpedit may work if your version of windows has group policies, I found the fix to be updating my chip drivers from 7 to 8 directly from my manufacturer site. It added a new battery driver in...